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Kenneally-Jung’s Concept of Individuation
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Stephen Kenneally, Jung’s Concept of Individuation
January 20, 2012
Individuation, the lifelong development of the personality, is central to Jung’s psychology. It is the process of becoming the person one is innately meant to be. While aspects of this concept have been embraced by popular culture, the true depth and scope of Jung’s theory requires a much closer examination. Rather than merely describing a simple version of self-improvement, individuation describes an intricate process of becoming a person who can relate deeply to his or her psyche.
Stephen Kenneally, MBA, MFT, is a Jungian psychotherapist and consultant in Santa Monica, CA. He teaches psychology and ethics at Antioch University and is the current Chair of the Opus Archives and Research Center (a research institute within Pacifica Graduate Institute that holds the archives of Joseph Campbell and other eminent scholars in depth psychology and mythology). Prior to becoming a psychotherapist Stephen worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan. He received a BS in economics from Harvard, an MBA from the Darden School of Business, and an MA in psychology counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is currently an analyst-in-training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles, where he offers periodic lectures.
Stephen Kenneally, MBA, MFT – In Search of the Self
Posted by: | CommentsWorkshop with Stephen Kenneally, MBA, MFT
January 21, 2012
Jung’s concept of the Self speaks directly to the mysterious element in the psyche that inspires and brings meaning to our lives. Fifty years after Jung’s death, it remains an elusive and controversial subject. In this interactive workshop we will review various ways of thinking about the Self, the numinous as well as the dark side, so that we can better relate to the emergent forces in us that can lead to individuation, meaning, and the development of our personalities.
We will examine some archetypal material that illuminates this process, and we will explore Jung’s concepts of the opposites that are held in the Self. We will also look into the role of the shadow, the animus/anima, dreams, and active imagination in the process of relating to the Self.
Stephen Kenneally, MBA, MFT, is a Jungian psychotherapist and consultant in Santa Monica, CA. He teaches psychology and ethics at Antioch University and is the current Chair of the Opus Archives and Research Center (a research institute within Pacifica Graduate Institute that holds the archives of Joseph Campbell and other eminent scholars in depth psychology and mythology). Prior to becoming a psychotherapist Stephen worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan. He received a BS in economics from Harvard, an MBA from the Darden School of Business, and an MA in psychology counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is currently an analyst-in-training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles, where he offers periodic lectures.
Scott Haasarud, Ph.D. – Jung and Jesus
Posted by: | CommentsWorkshop with Scott Haasarud, Ph.D.
December 10, 2011
On Saturday we will explore together through group discussion how several of Jesus’ stories probe deeply into our own psyche. The New Testament scholar Henry Sharmon once wrote that to enter deeply into the teachings of Jesus is to enter deeply into oneself. We will explore how Jung has informed that possibility.
Scott Haasarud is an ordained Lutheran Minister in private practice as a spiritual director, Jungian oriented therapist and pastoral counselor. His doctoral degree is in Religion and Psychology and he studied for many years at the C.G Jung Institute in Los Angeles. He spent one year as a matriculated student at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. For questions about the workshop or lecture, you may contact Scott by email or call him at 602 265-2500.
Haasarud-Jung’s Contribution to Understanding Jesus
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Scott Haasarud, Ph.D. - Jung’s Contribution to Understanding Jesus
December 9, 2011
- Jung observed that human beings are meaning makers and that the nature of human understanding and meaning making is essentially mythic as well as rational. The purpose of this lecture is to use the archetypal and mythological insights of Jung to shed light on the meaning that the Gospel stories of Jesus have for our lives today. For example the birth of Jesus reminds us of the virgin birth of the hero and the mythic significance of the great mother goddess. Stories like the prodigal son are deeply related to the archetype of individuation. This lecture will use some of the basic ideas of the psychology of C.G. Jung as tools for interpreting myth, specifically the myths that were projected onto Jesus of Nazareth, the central events in his life, and the stories he told.
Scott Haasarud is an ordained Lutheran Minister in private practice as a spiritual director, Jungian oriented therapist and pastoral counselor. His doctoral degree is in Religion and Psychology and he studied for many years at the C.G Jung Institute in Los Angeles. He spent one year as a matriculated student at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. For questions about the workshop or lecture, you may contact Scott by email or call him at 602 265-2500.
Young -The Inner Life of Holidays: Memories and Traditions
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Jonathan Young, Ph.D.- The Inner Life of Holidays: Memories and Traditions
November 4, 2011
November stirs a distinct mood. From Halloween into the winter, there is a parade of festivities that engross our senses. By staying mindful in the midst of seasonal strivings, we can use ordinary rituals to honor the call of the unconscious. Popular stories, customs, music and images are rich with nostalgia and emotion. The archetypal aspects of such traditions can be guides in the journey towards wholeness. We will look at familiar ceremonies to find personal meanings and see how they affect the deep down flow of the imagination.
Jonathan Young is a Psychologist, Storyteller, and writer on mythic stories. He assisted mythologist Joseph Campbell at seminars and was the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. He created and chaired the Mythological Studies Department at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. His books and articles focus on personal mythology.
Dudley-Descent into Hell:The Soul’s Other Journey
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with Guilford Dudley, Ph.D.,Descent into Hell:The Soul’s Other Journey
September 16, 2011
Unlike what we read about in most spiritual literature-the upward, heavenly ascent of the soul–Jung’s experience was that the upward movement of the soul only creates its opposite, an equally meaningful descent into subterranean realms. Jung has re-emphasized what patriarchal interpretations of the Christian message took out: the importance of nature, the feminine, and metaphorically the nether realms of the earth–not only the metals used in alchemy, but the demonic.
“If I ascend to the highest and most difficult on the one hand, and seek to eke out redemption that reaches even higher, then the true way does not lead upward, but toward the depths.” – from Jung’s Red Book
He reminds us that in the Christian mythos Christ repeats the rhythm of descent in pagan religions, such as Odysseus’ visit to the Underworld in the Odyssey and Orpheus’ descent to bring back Eurydice, but does so in a new version of suffering as the soul’s destiny and achievement of wholeness. The lecture will enlarge on Jung’s meaning of the soul’s anabasis, its earthward ‘descent into hell.’ In this descent we encounter both the dark and the treasure within the dark. We can even encounter the ancestors, including immediate family members. The burdens they leave us in their incomplete lives become our task to complete, without our realizing that we are fated to compensate for their one-sidedness. Becoming conscious of this syndrome can liberate us for fuller individuation.
Guilford Dudley is a Jungian Analyst working in Northern New Mexico. He has a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and three degrees from Yale University. Guil is completing a manuscript for a memoir entitled: “A Penny for Your Truth: Confessions of a Jungian Analyst,” in which he narrates his own journey through the dark, but often amusing, sides of an aristocratic family and its mythic claims to English royalty, along with the descent into his own nether realms while living in a remote cabin in the California mountains, accessible in the winter only by dogsled. He is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, and the author of two books on myth, and an unpublished manuscript on the apocalyptic imagination.
SUSAN SCHWARTZ, PhD – March 2011
Posted by: | CommentsDREAMS AND TRAUMA
Friday Evening Talk: March 18, 2011
I would like to select some of Jung’s dreams, ones not usually presented, to illustrate their connection to personal and collective events–specifically, traumatic ones. Jung’s dreams picked up much of the collective trauma of his era as well as his own. This will be a discussion about how we can look at dreams and see how they illustrate trauma to the body, mind and soul. In addition to being warning signals, the dreams also are key to revealing the tools and the solutions. We could say that the pathway of individuation leads us through dreams, into trauma, and back again in an unending loop to become our authentic selves.
FAIRY TALES, TRAUMA AND DREAMS
Saturday Workshop: March 19, 2011
Fairy tales are mirrors of our psyches and present to us the personal and collective tasks of our lives. They have much symbolic material that unravels more and more as we develop deeper awareness of ourselves. We identify, for many reasons and from our own traumas, with certain characters in the stories that are favorites from childhood–and adulthood. To some degree, we live out these stories, too often unaware of how much the past tales may be shaping our present lives.
It is a great treasure and responsibility to know which tales have a hold on us. These stories make up a kind of collective dream that we all share in bits and pieces. If we are to understand our dreams, we can look into these stories and study them. If we want to understand the stories, we can examine our dreams. There is an interrelationship between these two forms of the inner and outer, self and other, leading us to more fully comprehend the tasks of our individual and collective lives.
SUSAN SCHWARTZ, PhD is a Jungian analyst trained in Zürich, Switzerland, as well as a licensed clinical psychologist. For many years Susan has enjoyed giving workshops and presentations at various venues, and lectures worldwide on Jungian analytical psychology. She is the author of several journal articles on daughters and fathers, Puella, Sylvia Plath, a chapter in the four editions of Counseling and Psychotherapy textbook and a chapter in Perpetual Adolescence, published in 2009. She is a member of the New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts, the International Association of Analytical Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and Phoenix Friends of Jung. Her website is http://susanschwartzphd.com/
Leslie Knowlton, MFA, ACC – Workshop November 2010
Posted by: | CommentsHow Knowing More About Personality Type Contributes to More Effective Relationships
Workshop: Saturday, November 20, 2010
What is your true type? We will come to clarity as a group on this process for each participant. In the process we learn more about the nuances and power of the dynamics of the model. With this information you will be able to understand what your development path forward tells you about how to recognize stages of stress in yourself and in those around you, as well as what you can learn from the clarity you find in the nature of your type’s shadow.
Leslie Knowlton, MFA, ACC, has her own business as a development coach and social media consultant in the Phoenix area. She has worked in leadership development and organizational change for the past 20 years. She earned her coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation in 2008. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Media Studies from the State University of New York (Visual Studies Workshop, NY) and a Bachelors of Science in Aesthetic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA. The focus of her work is to bring the power of Jungian principles of personality type and archetypes to the work of change and renewal for leaders, groups and organizational systems. See more about her on her website at www.suddenlyheard.com.
